在工作中,我们用于捕捉性能问题最常用的就是打开慢查询,定位执行效率差的SQL,那么当我们定位到一个SQL以后还不算完事,我们还需要知道该SQL的执行计划,比如是全表扫描,还是索引扫描,这些都需要通过EXPLAIN去完成。EXPLAIN命令是查看优化器如何决定执行查询的主要方法。可以帮助我们深入了解MySQL的基于开销的优化器,还可以获得很多可能被优化器考虑到的访问策略的细节,以及当运行SQL语句时哪种策略预计会被优化器采用。
mysql>explain select d1.age, t2.id from (select age,name from t1 where id in (1,2))d1, t2 where d1.age=t2.age group by d1.age, t2.id order by t2.id;
+----+-------------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+--------+------+---------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+--------+------+---------------------------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | <derived2> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 2 | Using temporary; Using filesort |
| 1 | PRIMARY | t2 | ref | age | age | 5 | d1.age | 1 | Using where; Using index |
| 2 | DERIVED | t1 | range | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 2 | Using where |
+----+-------------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+--------+------+---------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
1. id
表示查询中执行select子句或操作表的顺序,越大越先执行,相同从上到下执行
2. select_type
标识查询中每个select子句的简单复杂程度
- a.SIMPLE:查询中不包含子查询或UNION查询
- b.PRIMARY:标记包含子查询的外层查询
- c.SUBQUERY:在select或where中的子查询
- d.DERIVED:在from中包含的子查询;子查询中使用union的外层查询
- e.UNION:第二个select出现在union之后
- f.UNION RESULT:从union表中获取结果的select
SUBQUERY和UNION和可以标记为DEPENDENT和UNCACHEABLE
DEPENDENT意味着select依赖外层查询中发现的数据
UNCACHEABLE意味着select中的默写特性阻止结果被缓存于一个item_cache中
3. table
就是使用的表,这个表可以是用户创建的也可以是临时表或查询结果集(简单)
Example:
mysql> explain select d1.name, ( select id from t3) d2 from (select id,name from t1 where name='')d1 union (select name,id from t2);
+----+--------------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+--------------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | <derived3> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 2 | NULL |
| 3 | DERIVED | t1 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
| 2 | SUBQUERY | t3 | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 1 | Using index |
| 4 | UNION | t2 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | NULL |
| NULL | UNION RESULT | <union1,4> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Using temporary |
+----+--------------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
执行顺序:第四行->第二行->第三行->第一行->第五行
第一行:id列为1,表示第一个select,select_type为primary表示该查询为外层查询,table列被标记为<derived3>,表示查询结果来自一个衍生表,其中3衍生表来自第三个select查询,即id为3的select
第二行:id为3,表示第三个select,包含在from中所以是derived
第三行:select列表的子查询,select_type为subquery,是整张表的第二个select
第四行:select_type为union,说明第四个select是union里的第二个select,最先执行
第五行:代表从union的临时表中读取行的阶段,table列的<union1,4>表示用第一个和第四个select的结果进行union
4. type(重要且不容易)
表示MySQL在表中找到所需行的方式,又称"访问类型",常见类型如下:
ALL<index<range<ref<eq_ref<const<sysstem<NULL
从左到右,性能从最差到最好
a.ALL:FULL Table Scan,MySQL将遍历全表以找到匹配的行
mysql> explain select * from t1 where email = '';
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
b.index:Full Index Scan,遍历索引树
mysql> explain select id from t1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | NULL | t1_name_index | 257 | NULL | 1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
c.range:索引范围扫描,对索引的扫描开始于某一点,返回匹配值域的行。一般where子句使用索引字段betwwen、< 、>、in()和OR列表时候type会是range
mysql> explain select * from t1 where id in (1,4);
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | range | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 2 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> explain select * from t1 where id between 1 and 4;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | range | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 1 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> explain select * from t1 where id <1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | range | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 1 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> explain select * from t1 where id =10 or id= 20;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | range | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 2 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> explain select * from t1 where phone like '1831131%';
+----+-------------+-------+-------+-----------------+-----------------+---------+------+------+-----------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+-----------------+-----------------+---------+------+------+-----------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | range | t1_phone_unique | t1_phone_unique | 767 | NULL | 1 | Using index condition |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+-----------------+-----------------+---------+------+------+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
d.ref:使用非唯一索引; 唯一索引的前缀扫描,返回匹配某个单独值的记录行(不知道啥意思,看懂的告诉我,哈哈)
mysql> explain select * from t1 where name='yyyy';
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | ref | t1_name_index | t1_name_index | 257 | const | 1 | Using index condition |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
e.eq_ref:类似ref,多表连接时使用唯一索引或主键连接
mysql> explain select t1.name from t1,t2 where t1.id=t2.id;
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------------+---------+------------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------------+---------+------------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | PRIMARY | t1_name_index | 767 | NULL | 1 | Using index |
| 1 | SIMPLE | t2 | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | test.t1.id | 1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------------+---------+------------+------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
f.const、system:当MySQL对查询某部分进行优化,并扎UN哈UN成一个常量时,使用这些类型访问。如将主键置于where列表中,MySQL就能将改查询转化成为一个常量。
mysql> explain select * from (select * from t1 where id=1)b1;
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | <derived2> | system | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | NULL |
| 2 | DERIVED | t1 | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | NULL |
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
注:system是const类型的特例,当查询的表只有一行的情况下,使用system
g.NULL:MySQL在优化过程中分析语句,有时候甚至不用访问表或索引,例如从一个索引列中选取最小的值可以通过单独的索引查找完成
mysql> explain select * from (select min(id) from t1)b1;
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | <derived2> | system | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | NULL |
| 2 | DERIVED | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Select tables optimized away |
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
5.possible_keys(不重要)
显示MySQL可能使用那个索引,但实际不一定使用
6.key (重要)
显示实际使用的索引,如果没有使用索引则为null
mysql> explain select id from t1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+-----------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+-----------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | NULL | t1_phone_unique | 767 | NULL | 1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+-----------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> explain select id,name from t1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | NULL | t1_name_index | 767 | NULL | 1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
key_len(重要)
表示索引中使用的字节数,可通过该列计算查询中使用的索引的长度(key_len显示的值为索引字段的最大可能长度,并非实际使用长度,
即key_len是根据表定义计算而得,不是通过表内检索出的)ref
表示上述表的连接匹配条件,即哪些列或常量被用于查找索引列上的值rows(重要)
表示MySQL根据表统计信息及索引选用情况,估算的找到所需的记录所需要读取的行数
mysql> explain select * from t1 , t2 where t1.id=t2.id and t2.name='atlas';
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | ALL | PRIMARY | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | NULL |
| 1 | SIMPLE | t2 | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | test.t1.id | 1 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------+------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
- Extra
包含不适合在其他列中显示但十分重要的额外信息
a. Using index
该值表示相应的select操作中使用了覆盖索引(Covering Index)
mysql>explain select id from t1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | NULL | age | 5 | NULL | 4 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
覆盖索引(Covering Index)
MySQL可以利用索引返回select列表中的字段,而不必根据索引再次读取数据文件
包含所有满足查询需要的数据的索引称为覆盖索引(Covering Index)
注意:如果要使用覆盖索引,一定要注意select列表中只取出需要的列,不可select *,因为如果将所有字段一起做索引会导致索引文件过大,查询性能下降
b. Using where
表示mysql服务器将在存储引擎检索行后再进行过滤。许多where条件里涉及索引中的列,当(并且如果)它读取索引时,就能被存储引擎检验,因此不是所有带where字句的查询都会显示"Using where"。有时"Using where"的出现就是一个暗示:查询可受益与不同的索引。
mysql>explain select id,name from t1 where id<4;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+--------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+--------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | PRIMARY | name | 63 | NULL | 4 | Using where; Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
c. Using temporary
表示MySQL需要使用临时表来存储结果集,常见于排序和分组查询
这个值表示使用了内部临时(基于内存的)表。一个查询可能用到多个临时表。有很多原因都会导致MySQL在执行查询期间创建临时表。两个常见的原因是在来自不同表的上使用了DISTINCT,或者使用了不同的ORDER BY和GROUP BY列。可以强制指定一个临时表使用基于磁盘的MyISAM存储引擎。这样做的原因主要有两个:
1)内部临时表占用的空间超过min(tmp_table_size,max_heap_table_size)系统变量的限制
2)使用了TEXT/BLOB 列
mysql>explain select id from t1 where id in (1,2) group by age,name;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | range | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | NULL | 2 | Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+----------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
d. Using filesort
MySQL中无法利用索引完成的排序操作称为“文件排序”
mysql>explain select id,age from t1 order by name;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 4 | Using filesort |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>explain select id,age from t1 order by age;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | NULL | age | 5 | NULL | 4 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
e. Using join buffer
改值强调了在获取连接条件时没有使用索引,并且需要连接缓冲区来存储中间结果。如果出现了这个值,那应该注意,根据查询的具体情况可能需要添加索引来改进能。
mysql>explain select t1.name from t1 inner join t2 on t1.name=t2.name;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+--------------+------+--------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+--------------+------+--------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | index | name | name | 63 | NULL | 4 | Using index |
| 1 | SIMPLE | t2 | ref | name | name | 63 | test.t1.name | 2 | Using where; Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+------+---------+--------------+------+--------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>alter table t1 drop key name;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql>alter table t2 drop key name;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql>explain select t1.name from t1 inner join t2 on t1.name=t2.name;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+--------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+--------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 4 | |
| 1 | SIMPLE | t2 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 4 | Using where; Using join buffer |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+--------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
f. Impossible where
这个值强调了where语句会导致没有符合条件的行。
mysql>EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE 1=2;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Impossible WHERE |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
h. Select tables optimized away
这个值意味着仅通过使用索引,优化器可能仅从聚合函数结果中返回一行.
mysql>explain select max(id) from t1;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Select tables optimized away |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
I. Index merges
当MySQL 决定要在一个给定的表上使用超过一个索引的时候,就会出现以下格式中的一个,详细说明使用的索引以及合并的类型。
Using sort_union(...)
Using union(...)
Using intersect(...)
总结:
• EXPLAIN不会告诉你关于触发器、存储过程的信息或用户自定义函数对查询的影响情况
• EXPLAIN不考虑各种Cache
• EXPLAIN不能显示MySQL在执行查询时所作的优化工作
• 部分统计信息是估算的,并非精确值
• EXPALIN只能解释SELECT操作,其他操作要重写为SELECT后查看执行计划。
参考自Explain 命令详解